Nano Banana API

google/nano-banana
Nano Banana is Google's native image generation and editing model, producing images from text or image prompts.
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Released
Feb 27, 2026

How to use Nano Banana API

Install any OpenAI-compatible SDK, point it at api.aimlapi.com/v1, and set the model to google/nano-banana.
import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/images/generations",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY},
    json={
      "model": "google/gemini-2.5-flash-image",
      "prompt": "A cat holding a sign that says hello"
    },
)
print(r.json())
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/images/generations", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "google/gemini-2.5-flash-image",
    "prompt": "A cat holding a sign that says hello"
  }),
});
console.log(await r.json());
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/images/generations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"google/gemini-2.5-flash-image","prompt":"A cat holding a sign that says hello"}'

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.

Nano Banana API Pricing

TypePrice
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Nano Banana Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreWhat it measuresSourceRetrieved
Image Editing Arena
986
Human preference Elo from blind pairwise comparisons of edited images, measured independently by Artificial AnalysisSourceSeptember 21, 2026

Nano Banana vs other models

ModelInputOutputContextBest for
Nano Banana
This page
Image generation
$0.325 / 1M tokens
$78 / 1M tokens
128K tokens
Image generation at scale
$0.052 / gen
High-fidelity text-to-image generation
$0.195 / gen (variable)
Image generation at scale

Frequently asked questions

Nano Banana takes image, text as input and returns image.

Nano Banana became available on February 27, 2026.

Yes, Nano Banana accepts image input as well as a text prompt.

Nano Banana was built by Google.

Send a request to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/images/generations with google/nano-banana as the model id.

Yes. Nano Banana is served through AI/ML API, so the same key and endpoint format used for other models applies.

Nano Banana is an image generation model, supporting text-to-image and image-to-image modalities.

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